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Here is the Chinese idiom 「當刑而王」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
It means to endure hardships first and then rise to great heights.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dāng xíng ér wáng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dong3/dong1 ying4 yi4 wong4
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